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Rice has sort of become the current “celebrity” of the moment. Problem is, even the Raiders have figured it out, too. Want to beat the Chiefs? Blanket Kelce and Rice with defenders in the secondary, play downhill towards the run. Rice is the only one of the WR corps that is improving, but it comes with a really bad caveat. He’s really prone to coughing up a ball right after a catch. And other teams know it.
Which brings me to my next point. We’ve handed to many of these games over to our opponents. Way too many dumb passes that resulted in interceptions, way too many fumbles when WR’s were thinking about their touchdown dance moves before catching the ball. Most of our losses were self-inflicted this year. Their offense couldn’t score against this D on a long field. But they obviously can when we hand them a short one.
The penalties are always an issue. It’s the dumb ones that sting. Toney’s offsides penalty was horrible, made everyone almost forget about the one Dee Ford made. #74 seems to have turned himself into a ref favorite, but in his defense he’s responsible for protecting a $500mil investment in PM2.
Speaking of flags, there’s one thing PM does that I wish would stop. Throwing a pass just to get a flag. There’s way too many times that Mahomes will throw in the area of a guy he sees being held, and instantly point right after the ball is thrown. Sometimes it works, we get the flag our way, but think what’s going on is that the refs are getting fed up with it, and it’s coming back to bite us in the butt (For example, the no-call on DPI against MVS). It also wouldn’t surprise me a bit to find out we had another person wide open when this happens.
Sometimes it’s best not to even listen to what the mob or media knee-jerk reactions are. The season is not over yet. We still have an effective TE corps, our defense is still playing at a high level, and when the right playcalls/OL performance is executed we’re still capable of making yards on the ground.
The biggest issue this team has is the dropped passes. Chiefster pointed out correctly that you can’t let talent like Hill or Watkins go and not expect a dropoff in WR performance. I’d like to add another name to that list, which I’m surprised hasn’t been brought up more often…Juju Smith-Schuster. Hill, Watkins, and JJ SS all three were capable of fighting for a catch and most of the time would come away with the ball. This has not been the case with the current WR’s.
To address m/c’s points about dumb mob/media “business moves”-
1) Fire Veach? Yeah, sure. Let’s fire the GM that took us from a playoff competitor to a team that went to three of the last four super bowls and won two of them. The people saying this clearly have not thought this plan out, unless they are Broncos/Chargers/Raiders fans.
2) Fire Nagy. Actually there’s a little truth to this, from the standpoint of WR performance. When one or two players perfom poorly, it’s on the players. When they’re all doing it, it’s on the coaching. But that’s as far as that argument goes AFAIC. Reid’s/Mahomes’ playcalling needs to step up and take some responsibility here, too.
3) Mahomes is just going through a challenging year, period. He’s still young with a ton of years ahead to play. Just needs to get better at the mental aspect of this game and realize the league is adjusting to him, and now it’s his time to adjust to what other teams are doing to stiffle him. All the great QBs go through it. My only issue with Mahomes this year is I wish he’d use his legs a bit more and just run.
But it’s okay, radio pundits. I’m sure your pick-of-the-week will rack up yards/points/Lombardi trophies the way PMII did, not a problem at all.
